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Justice and Educational Distribution

Friday, 1 August 2008 in Conferences, Notices by Simon Cabulea May | No comments

Stanford: 17-18 October 2008

The Stanford Center on Ethics will be hosting a conference on justice and educational distribution on 17-18 October 2008. The program is below the fold and a website will be posted in due course.

Friday, October 17
9:30-10:45: Michael McPherson (President, Spencer Foundation) and John Hennessy (President, Stanford)

11:00-12:30: Les Jacobs; Respondent TBA

1:30-3:00: Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard, Government, African and African–American Studies, and Education), “Immigration Regimes, Schooling Regimes, and Educational Outcomes: What Is Fairest to Immigrants and Native-born Residents?”; Respondent: Irene Bloemraad (Berkeley, Sociology)

3:15-4:45: Susan Mayer  (Chicago, Public Policy); Respondent: Josh Cohen (Stanford, Political Science, Philosophy, Law)

4:45-6:15: Caroline Hoxby (Stanford, Hoover Institute and Economics); Respondent: Kenneth Strike (Syracuse, Education)

Saturday, October 18
10:00-11:30: Dan Weinstock (Montreal, Philosophy and Ethics Center), “Can we learn anything about justice in education from thinking about justice in health-care?”; Respondent: Susanna Loeb (Stanford, Education)

11:45-1:15: Rick Hanushek (Stanford, Hoover Institution), “Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap”; Respondent: Glenn Loury (Brown, Economics)

2:30-4:00: Paul Weithman (Notre Dame, Philosophy): Respondent: Rob Reich (Stanford, Political Science)

4:00-5:30: David Schmitdz  (Arizona, Philosophy and Economics), “Need as a Distributive Principle”; Respondent: Josh Ober (Stanford, Classics

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